Sunday Again!

I keep saying it, 

the days just fly past, back to Sunday, as usual a read and a sherry, 

then a mixture of Indian starters, 

which were rather nice as it happens, 

we followed that with a huge roast beef diner, with gravy for Diana sans gravy for myself, 

'Cheers!',

we rounded off our meal with a Eton mess, with cream,

 lots of cream, diet starts next week! than some sadness for us, Mick, (Michael Watson) called by with some sad news, his wife of some 40 years, Pauline, had passed away 2 days ago, we chatted about her, Mick explaining to Diana back in the 70s when we were both footloose and fancy free, we would go the a few clubs and bars in Croydon, and it was at one of these we started chatting to a couple of young ladies, one of which was Pauline, they hit it off in no uncertain terms, were soon married, and lived together ever since in Sanderstead and then later in Sidcup, Pauline had been unwell for a number of years, although not a surprise it is another thing when something like this happens, we wished him well as we said our sad farewells,

after some time of sober reflection and chatting to Diana we decided to watch Lawrence of Arabia, a classic, which we now had as a Blu-ray, the difference between watching Netflix HD and the disc was amazing, the colors were so correct and the focus perfect, it really shows how poor the Netflix HD channel really is, back to the film, it in the story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks, the film Lawrence of Arabia, a film that I could never tire of watching, even though it is over 3 hours long, great film, as an aside, on his first location scouting trip in Jordan, director Sir David Lean discovered the remains of the Turkish locomotives and railroad tracks T. E. Lawrence had destroyed during the Arab Revolution, after forty years or more in the sun, they hadn't even rusted,

if you are into reading this period is covered in Seven Pillars of Wisdom  by T. E. Lawrence, and a good read it was too, 

almost as good is a book I have, written by a friend of mine Victor Winstone as I knew him, titled Captain Shakespear, as one reviewer wrote, 'This wonderful book details just how great our influence in modern Saudi Arabia would have been if it had not been for the incompetence of the British Government', incompetence, British Government? in the same sentence, who would have thought that? for a brief look at the life of Captain Shakespear have a look here, after which Diana was off to bed as she has a 04.00 am start tomorrow, 

for myself a spiced rum magically appeared in my empty glass as I started to watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the first time we watched it we were both amazed at the colors and special effects and especially the performance of Deep Roy who play the Oomph Loompas, and who at 67 years old is still going strong, after which I too was off to bed.